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Box inscription: Kinds of Be’u - a) Preparation for Omea after Be’u Ba’ita b) Man who tania ba’e, is Abu c) Ta’a Ba’ita d) Ta’a Sika’u -- ’Uinga - ritual for Fonulaanigeni (stuff on affines) eating boo ni geni -- Ngisuna Adalo - magic in general -- Suunga procedure + ritual events following (comparing suunga + be’u ba’ita - tanimolanga ni geni - Sulu’ai) -- Taboos for Affines -- gardening strategies & rights.

• 28 May 1970

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries C) Reel-to-Reel. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 151.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 66, Folder 22).

1/4 inch open reel audio (mono)

Saelasi Lounga was at this time a South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) Christian living on the coast at Uru Harbour, but was formerly an important and knowledgeable ancestral priest for the Kwangafi area. He died in the early 1990s.
A be’u ba’ita is an important dead person, usually a priest (wane tania ba’e). Special procedures will be followed for the mortuary rituals and feast.
Ta’a ba’ita are older or important people; ta’a sika’u are young or unimportant people.
’Uinga refers to various aspects of beginning a mortuary feast.
Fonulaanigeni is a mortuary feast at which there are boonigeni or pigs that can be eaten by women.
Ngisuna adalo means the power of a particular ancestral spirit.
Suunga is high sacrifice, involving ritual seclusion of a priest (whose name cannot be spoken and is referred to as suru’ai), and to a leeser degree the congregation, and more complex rituals of sacralization and desacralization (tanimolanga) of the entire congregation.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Reel-to-Reel 061-062 and continues on Keesing Reel-to-Reel 064-067.

• Malaita (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Lounga, Saelasi

• Ancestors
• Exchange
• Gardening
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Magic
• Mortuary feasts
• Pigs
• Ritual
• Taboos
• Women

• image
• sound recording

Online finding aid

• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

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